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  1. AlezaJ

    What could go wrong? 2 week old poults + chicks

    I have 2 week old chicks and poults. A broody hen is currently hatching her brood and I'm considering moving the 19 chick's in with the 7 poults in their larger brooder to make room for mama and babies in the smaller brooder. The brooders are touching and only divided by 2 layers of 1/2 inch...
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    Comment by 'AlezaJ' in article 'Brooding and Raising Turkey Poults'

    My poults arrived today. They're nearly 3 days old already. They are drinking water but I see them eating grit and not feed. Maybe the color contrast is the reason? I've had them for 2 hours and 2 have layer under the heat lamp on their side and when I picked them up, they couldn't lift...
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    I'll just call them barnyard crosses from now on, lol sounds nicer.
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    In the first post bogtown chick was listing poultry types and said toads with mutts in parentheses right after.....was she wrong or are you pulling my leg?:D
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Toads means mutts doesn't it?
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    My second hatch of the year is going well. I've barely opened the incubator this time and decided not to raise the humidity for lockdown. I moved 14 to the brooder this morning, 4 more hatched and I'm waiting on 11 eggs to do something. All toads.
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Hello! :frow 2 or 3 years ago one of my pulleys laid a fairy egg. I wanted to keep it so I put it in an interior window sill intending to search ways to preserve it. I never did.:idunno Today my 3 year old took it down and broke it. Inside was an amber-color crystal-like substance. I...
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I learned a lot reading the posts on this hatch along and from my own mistakes. When's the next hatch along? :pop
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    28 chicks out of 48 set is my final count.
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I started with 48 chicken eggs. 39 went into lockdown and 28 made it to the brooder. My biggest hatch so far. Last year I only set 24 eggs at a time. The end of a hatch is so sad I ended up with 5 dead and 6 that never even pipped. What is this water test I've seen mentioned a few times...
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    :thI just checked, I think it's intestines. I'm guessing nothing can be done?
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I woke up to the stuck chick still stuck so I helped it out. It's alive but not very active. On day 15 I dropped a green egg on its end and patched it up. It had been pipped nearly as long as the partial zipped egg so I softened the membrane for it as well last night. It hatched but it's way...
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    Thanks I'll try that.:fl
  14. AlezaJ

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    One of my eggs has been zipped about an inch for the last 12ish hours. I can see it breathing but it hasn't moved. Do you think it will finish on its own?
  15. AlezaJ

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I have 19:jumpy hatched, 13 pipped, and 7 still waiting.:pop
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    If their dad was a barred rock they should all have white spots on their heads, boy or girl. If the mother was barred and the father was a solid color, only the males will have spots on their heads. Worked for me last spring.
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    Chicks in my brooder.
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    12 :jumpy hatched so far another 1 is zipping and at least 10 more pips! :yesss:
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    :jumpy:jumpy:jumpy3 chicks so far!:celebrate 36 to go. :fl
  20. AlezaJ

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    Woke up to at least 9 pips out of my 39 eggs! More than a day early! They were set the evening of the 10th.
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